Improvement in chargers for powder-flasks



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GEORGE A. cAPEwELL, GEORGE D. OAREWELL, AND JosErE T. cArEvvELL, OE WOODRURY, ooNNEoTroUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN CHARGERS FOR POWDER-FLASKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 118,104, dated August 15, 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, GEORGE A. OArEwELL, GEORGE D. CAPEWELL, and J OsEPn T. CAPE- WELL, of Woodbury, in the county of Litchtield and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Charger for Powder-Flask and we do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawing and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawing constitutes part of this specication, and represents, in

Figure l, a side view; Fig. 2, a top view; Fig. 3, a vertical central section; Figs. 4, 5, and. 6, detached views; and in Figs. 7, S, 9, 10, and 11,detached views ofthe construction heretofore employed.

This invention relates to an improvement in chargers such as are commonly used upon powder-iiasks, portions oi which are applicable to chargers of shot-pouches.

Heretoi'ore the spring to operate the gate has been formed, as in Fig. 8, with a hook, a, upon the under edge to set through an opening, b, in the lower plate A ofthe charger. Vithin this spring a plain ring of iiat metal, as seen in Fig. 9, has been set; then a second plate, B, (see Figs. 10 and 11,) which is little less than the internal diameter oi' the spring, is placed on the said ring, the ring being narrower than the said spring, and the two plates secured together by screws or rivets, the gate being arranged between the two plates, so that the free end of the spring will bear against and close the gate or cut-oft'.

This construction is open to several objections, the first of which is the liability ofthe hook c to break and thus render the spring useless; secondly, forming the ring between the plates independent of the plates makes the adjustment of the ring difcult, the multiplication of parts adding to the cost ofthe article, and the spring uncovered is exposed to accidents of various kinds, all of which, by our improvement, are entirely overcome; and it consists in forming the spring with two downward projections to enter the lower plate, combined with the upper plate, which is of larger diameter than the spring, and having a iiange formed thereon slightly wider than the spring, so that a recess or chamber is formed around the said spring. Our invention also consists in slitting the inner tube of the charger to make it elastic, for the purpose of sustaining the adjustable tube in either ofthe desired positions.

A is the neck of the flask; B, the lower plate or base, which is secured to the neck of the'iiask in the usual manner. C, the covering-plate, is formed with a neck, D, to receive the charger, and also with a flange, d, the neck-plate and iiange being in one and the same piece, as denoted in broken lines, Fig. 3, and as seen in Fig. 4. A recess at f is left in the flange d, through which the thunibpiece F of the cut-od' extends. The spring S is formed, as in Fig. 5, with two downward projections, t t, to extend into corresponding recesses in the lower plate B, and over this the upper plate C is set, the ange d within the spring, (the cut-off H having been first set in position,) and the two plates secured together by screws or rivets. The plate C, proj ectin g over the spring fully a-nd entirely covers it, so that it is in no way exposed to accident, as in the common construction before described, the manner of securing the spring being much stronger than that as heretofore practiced, and the whole construction better and simpler, and at less cost than the common construction.

Heretofore the adjustable tube L ofthe charger has been placed over a solid tube, trusting to the nicety of fit of the vinner tube for the requisite friction to hold the adjuster in place. This often fails to do its work and the adjuster is liable to be misplaced. To avoid this, we slit the inner tube N, as at n, shown detached in Fig. 6, opening the tube slightly larger than the internal diameter of the adjuster L, and the metal, being elastic, forms a su'licient spring to retain the adjuster.

This portion of our invention is alike applicable to shot-chargers.

We claim as our invention- N, constructed with the slit n, in the manner 1. The neck of Jche charger, consisting of the and for the purpose substantially as setforth. plates B (j, the said plate C provided with L GEORGE A. CAPEWELL. neck, D7 and lia-nge Land with @projecting edge, GEORGE D. CAPEWELL. as described, combined With the spring,` S and J. T. CAPEVVELL. cut-off H, all construct-ed and united iu the inan- Witnesses: ner specified. CHARLES B. BORSFORD,

2. In an adjustable charger, the inner tube OTIS W. BETTS. 

